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with Sacramento Regional Transit - we have been looking at funding options, and partnering with them
to approximate the money to repurpose it as a light rail construction. We look at modes shift - how do
you get folks out of their cars into other modes. We have taken conventional roadway alignments -
where we put the bike lanes against the curb and the parking in the street. We have worked on creating
infrastructure that makes it more comfortable for biking. If you are going to do a new infrastructure
project it needs to be accessible for people with disabilities and alternate modes of transportation.
Another issue that we are looking at is a bus rapid transit program - where you designate right away to
buses. The idea is to create a bus system that allows people to travel faster than car. It's something we
are evaluating - for me I look at the future of mobility in America. We have to get people out of their
single transportation vehicles.

The State of California has passed laws requiring increased recycling of Organic Waste, with the
goal of reducing disposal of organic waste by 50 percent compared to 2014 levels, by 2020.
Please provide your experience with recycling and solid waste in addressing this issue.

This is a challenging issue. Almost all accounts in the City have a green waste container. There is an
exemption if you have less than 5% of vegetation in the parcel that you own. The legislation that you are
referring to covers residential, and commercial will require that everyone has a green waste container
and you take your food out of the trash can and it goes into the green waste and put that in digesters.
This law has come down but we do not have the infrastructure as a state yet. The likely solution is to
take the green waste and dispose of it in an environmentally friendly way. What are we going to do with
all this green waste. The emissions of the diesel trucks. I'm very experienced with this - we are currently
going through a rate increase that will go to Council later this year. We will have an increase of right
around $3 per year to help our customers pay for organics diversion.

What experience do you have in supervising a diverse group of employees, mentoring and growing
them, and what employment issues and challenges have you faced in embracing diversity?

I have quite a bit of experience with that. I have supervised people on and off for almost 15 years now.
I have never had a group that wasn't diverse. Perhaps living in CA has that effect. I think part of the
thing that gives me a leg up on that, is my wife is a female engineer. Through that relationship I have
probably been hypersensitized to the issues of someone coming up who doesn't look like everyone
around them. I think one important aspect of diversity ­ is socioeconomic diversity. Probably 2/3rds of
our PW folks are blue­collar. To be a department head, I think it is really important to value the work
that everyone does. Their work is every bit as important if not more important. I have been a great
champion for folks up and down the ranks and of all colors and orientations in our organization..

The DPW will manage seven divisions and a staff of over 700. What do you see as the challenges
and what is your experience in managing multiple divisions?

My experience managing multiple groups of people - I will go back to the transportation
division. We had file folks, transportation, private development folks. One group of people may
be experiencing difficulty getting a truck, that's an incredibly important thing - and I have three
years in our transportation group doing that. I obviously have that experience. The big
challenges that are happening with the City - converting to organic waste diversion, also
dealing with the homelessness process. Whether it is our facility folks - that is a place where
PW is under the limelight. This is a very new thing - and we are in very new waters. Another
huge problem is funding for transportation infrastructure. If you look at our sidewalks,
pavements, street traffic signals. We only get about $8m per year. Every city and county and
state in the whole is facing. We have a responsibility to maintain our infrastructure. Finding the
resources and the will is a huge challenge for our department moving forward. Our facilities
department is similar. Adding staff to address the maintenance needs of our facilities is equally
as important - this is a huge challenge we have to deal with with the City of Sacramento.